[central_va]

Also dispelling the crazy idea that secession did not happen to protect the institution of slavery and the entire Southern economy which was built on it.

If you think Southerners volunteered to fight to protect slavery then that is an insult to my ancestors. Quit re writing history it's dangerous and foolish, it's what the left does.

After two years of crushing defeats the abolitionists took over the northern cause and re packaged it into a war to free the black man to get the Goon re- elected.. Hence the need for the conscription act. Nobody wanted to die to either keep the black man enslaved or to free them.

Go to the DU, they'd love you.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I’m not going to DU. I’m not secesh so I’ll hang around. As for your ancestors, their own words said slavery was the reason, so go to the graveyard and take up with them.

[DoodleDawg]

Quit re writing history it's dangerous and foolish, it's what the left does.

And Lost Causers.

[DoodleDawg]

Hence the need for the conscription act. Nobody wanted to die to either keep the black man enslaved or to free them.

So then when the Confederacy adopted conscription the year before the North passed their conscription act, was it because nobody wanted to fight for Southern independence?